Adjustable support for spouts and the like.



E. A. BEYL.

ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT FOR SPOUTS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, 1911.

1,1 33,529. Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, 1911..

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citizen of the United EMIL A. BEYL, OE MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

ADJUSTABLE SUIPORT FOB. SPOU'TS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented liliar. 39, 1915.

Application filed September 9, 1911. Serial No. 648,469.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL A. BEYL, a States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Supports for Spouts and the like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide a simplified and improved grain distributing spout and actuating means therefor, and to this end, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation with some parts sectioned and some parts broken away, showing one of the improved spouts installed for use; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the upper part shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an elevation of a distributing spout, the upper floor which supports the same being shown in section; Fig. 4 is a detail partly in elevation and partly in vertical section, showing parts of the spout actuating connections; Fig. 5 is a view partly in plan and partly in horizontal section on the line m m of Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a detail in section on the line w as of Fig. 4.

The numeral 1 indicates the working floor and the numeral 2 the overlying floor of an elevator or other grain storage or handling building in which the distributing spout is applied. The hopper 3 which directly supplies the distributing spout, is supported above the floor 2, in the customary manner.

and for the purpose of the case it is not thought necessary to illustrate the same. The distributing spout is made up of an upper elbow 5, a lower elbow 6, and an intermediate tube 7. The upper end of the tube 7 is pivoted to the upper elbow 5 at 8 and the lower end of the said tube 7 is preferably rigidly connected to the lower elbow 6. The upper elbow 5 is telescoped over and swiveled on an independent flange of the supplying hopper 3, and it is rigidly secured to the upper end of an upright standard or shaft which, as shown, preferred, is 1n the form of a steel or iron pipe 9. The lower end of the shaft 9 rests upon and is swiveled in a bearing 10, secured on the floor 2, and just above its lower end, a sheave or pulley 11 is secured to said shaft. An operating belt 12 runs over the sheave 11 and over a smaller sheave 13, which latter is secured at the upper end with a long vertical shaft 14. This shaft 14 is ournaled in bearings 15 and 16, respectively, on the floors 1 and 2. Within reach of the operator on the floor 1, the operating shaft 14 is provided with an operating hand wheel 17.

At a point somewhat above the sheave 11, the tubular shaft 9 is provided with a bracket 18 rigidly secured thereto, and projecting toward the distributing spout. A segmental sheave or crank wheel 19 having a grooved periphery, is journaled at 20 to the projecting end of the bracket 18 and works through a slot 21 out in the said tubular shaft 9, as best shown in Figs. 4 and 6. A link or connecting rod 22, is pivoted at one end to the lower elbow 6 of the distributing spout, and at its other end is pivoted to the lower portion of the segmental wheel 19. A cable 23 is extended through the lower portion of the tubular shaft 9, and at its upper end is attached to the upper portion of the segment 19. The lower end of this cable 23 is extended downward through the floor 2 and is attached to a foot lever 24, pivotally connected to the operating floor 1.

The free end of the distributing spout, towit, the lower end of the lower elbow 6, is adapted to be swung into alinement with any one of a multiplicity of floor funnels 25 applied to the floor 2 and connected by means, not shown, to various bins. As is evident, by rotation of the shaft 14, the distributing spout may be oscillated into alinement with any one of several floor thimbles 25 located on the arc of a circle struck from the axis of the shaft 9. This oscillating of the distributing spout into alinement with the different floor thimbles should take place while the delivery end of the distributing spout is raised above the floor thimbles, and this is accomplished when the foot lever 24 is stepped upon so as to oscillate the crank wheel 19. When the delivery end of the distributing spout is alined with the proper simply unwinds from the same.

floor .thimble, and the foot lever 24: .is re leased, the lower end of the lower thimble 6 will drop into receiving end 01": the floor thimble and interlock the distributing spout therewith, so that there can be no loss of grain due to jaccidental movement of the spout from its setwo king position.

It is important to note that in the action of the pulling downward on the cable 23 to lift the free end of the distributing spout, the so-called crank wheel 19 affords a constantly acting lever, in as much as the cable This socalled crank wheel is preferably segmental, because a segment is all that-is required, but, nevertheless, it might be a complete wheel disk or sheave, the term wheel being used, in the broad sense, to include all such eleinentsconnected to operate this crank to lift the'free end of the distributingspout.

The distributingspout actuating mechanism, above described, is extremely simple and highly efficient. Its operation produces no'wear, Whatever, on theshell or body tube of the distributing spout. It afiords means for easily and quicklymoving the spout in all of its difierent possible adjustments.

.What I claim is: The'combinatin with a tubular standard and an oblique mernb er connected thereto and pivotally associated therewith at its upper end, for oscillatory horizontal movement with said standard, and for vertical swinging movements in respect thereto, of a crank wheel pivotally connected to and working in a slot in said standard, a stiff link pivotally attached at one end to the lower end of said oblique member, and pivotally attached at its other end to saidcrank wheel'at a point eccentricto its journal, and an operative cable attached to and working on the periphery of said crank wheel,and extending axially downward through said tubnlar standard. i

i In testimony whereofl afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses BERNICE WnEELnn, HARRY D. KrLeoRE. I

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